Grand Canyon chords by Judy Collins

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 1st

♫ Intro:

| A minorAm   | FF   | A minorAm   | FF   |



♫ Verse 1:
  A minorAm       Am/GAm/G
Outside my window lies the canyon
FF          G+G     D MajorD
 Red and turquoise, orange and blue
A minorAm           Am/GAm/G
 Wandering through the painted desert
FF           G+G    D MajorD
 Like some bewildered drunken fool
FF       A minorAm
 The Colorado deep within her
FF         A minorAm
Cuts and rolls and sings and plays
FF        A minorAm
 Waterfalls and purple rainbows
FF        G+G   Dsus4Dsus4  D MajorD
 In her mists of silver haze

♫ Verse 2:
A minorAm      Am/GAm/G
Once I knew a man who traveled
FF        G+G   D MajorD
 Down her waters every day
A minorAm        Am/GAm/G
 Made his living guiding strangers
FF         G+G    D MajorD
 Where his shadows knew the way
FF        A minorAm
 On the borders of the rivеr
FF         A minorAm
Lit the fires and smoked thе pipes
FF          A minorAm
 Told the travelers all his stories
FF         G+G    Dsus4Dsus4
 Dared the men to win the prize


♫ Chorus 1:
C majorC
White with foam the water danced
FF
 Over rocks and under skies
C majorC
 Blue with summer, drenched in rain
FF      G+G  Dsus2Dsus2
 Faster than I realized

♫ Verse 3:
A minorAm      Am/GAm/G
 He was hard about his work
FF        G+G  D MajorD
 Soft about the columbines
A minorAm      Am/GAm/G
 Spoke about Apache friends
FF          G+G   D MajorD
Missed the years of silver mines
FF         A minorAm
 When the west was far away
FF         A minorAm
 Safe from eastern peddlers
FF        A minorAm
 When the canyon was his own
FF       G+G    D MajorD
 Far from mindless meddlers


♫ Chorus 2:
C majorC
In his arms I often listened
FF
 Sharing every dream he dreamed
C majorC
 A augmentedA summer lover soon to fly
FF          G+G     Dsus4Dsus4  D MajorD
 Far from where the moonlight gleamed


♫ Verse 4:
A minorAm      Am/GAm/G
I have often thought of him
FF        G+G    D MajorD
 Riding down the river's heart
A minorAm       Am/GAm/G
 Living for the plunging waters
FF      G+G   D MajorD
 Prying mysteries apart
FF      A minorAm
Is he still alive and smiling
FF      A minorAm
 Through a hazy waterfall
FF      A minorAm
 Sometimes I think it was madness
FF         G+G    Dsus2Dsus2
 To have left his lonesome call
  FF        G+G   Dsus2Dsus2
To sail beyond the canyon wall
FF       G+G   Dsus2Dsus2
Out to where coyotes call
FF        G+G     Dsus2Dsus2
Back then, when I knew it all


♫ Outro:
| FF   | Dsus2Dsus2  | FF G+G  | A minorAm   |